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American farmers in farms and corn and tomato crops in the United States.

World War 2 film 'It's Up to You!' shows farm activities during time of war production in the United States. Views of farmlands. An American farmer with his cattle cart on a field. A corn crop. A tractor driven in farm. A farmer gives grass to his horses. The farmer looks at the sky. The farmer loads haystack on his horse cart. A tomato crop. Views of bushels, eggs, pigs, cows and milk bottles.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058155
A farmer talks about inability to produce enough foods to feed soldiers and populace without rationing in the United States.

Rationing during World War 2 in the United States. A dramatization: A farmer works at a machine. The farmer gets up and climbs up a hilly terrain. He looks down. He gets into a horse cart. He plows a field. He works in the field. He drives a tractor. He bends his head on the steering wheel as he gets tired. Production of grains, vegetables and fruits. The farmer talks about the inability of U.S. farms to produce enough food to feed soldiers, Navy seamen, Allies and U.S. population without rationing. A ration book for equal share in food. Close up view of hands of person on ration book, showing cover with title 'War Ration Book Two" and views of pages of ration stamps.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058156
A conscience-stricken housewife refuses to buy black market meat because of high price and lack of food for military in the U.S.

Rationing of food in the United States. People go to stores with ration cards. Tins of food on shelves. Food packets and vegetables in a store. People buy food using the ration cards. Clothes on a string. People walk along a road with their rations. Shops and stores along the road. A dramatization: A house wife comes in a store to buy black market meat. The conscience-stricken housewife refuses to buy black market meat when the consequences (high price and lack of food for military) are explained to her. The housewife goes away. Pictures of soldiers, Marines and pilots. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058157
American citizens walking in towns and cities during World War 2, with ration song "It's up to you" in background.

Rationing of food in the United States during World War 2. Propaganda song jingle heard on film soundtrack with words "It's up to you, mister, what do you say? It's up to you, sister, starting today." Other lines include "You can fix that shoe and you can wear it. And you can cut down food, and you can share it. Mister, sister, it's up to you." American citizens walking in American towns. A woman passes a storefront. Poster in window says "Your blood may save your next of kin" (encouraging blood donations). Another sign recruits woman SPARS for military service. Women exiting a church. A woman working tilling a victory garden. Men and women pedestrians and workers crossing city streets during a work day. A large crowd gathers in an open square.

Date: 1943
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058158
Eggs go through straining, sifting and drying processes and dried egg in boxes being packed in cartons in Chicago, Illinois.

Processing of eggs in Chicago, Illinois. Egg liquid is poured in a pumping vat. The egg breaking department. Women break eggs and put them into buckets. Women straining and examining the eggs. Drying cyclones and sifting process. Dried eggs in a barrel. A sign on the barrel- 'Spray Dried Whole Eggs'. Insignia - 'USA Press Products Corp.' on the barrel. Girls pour eggs for shipment to England. Views of pouring of eggs for the shipment. Dried eggs on conveyors. Dried eggs in boxes being packed in cartons. Dried egg in boxes with the British flag.

Date: 1943, February
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058162
Butter is removed from a churn, cut into 1 lb blocks, wrapped and stored at Swift's Brookfield Creamery in Marion, Indiana.

Manufacture and storing of butter at Swift's Brookfield Creamery in Marion, Indiana. Men remove butter from a churn. The churn revolves. Machines are used to cut butter into 1 pound ( lb ) blocks. Girls wrap the butter. The girls stack the butter in piles. A butter storage room- storing of an 800 lb block.

Date: 1943, February
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058163